Managing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform

Advanced9 Steps8h 35m68 Credits

In this Quest, the experienced user of Google Cloud will learn how to describe and launch cloud resources with Terraform, an open source tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned. In these nine hands-on labs, you will work with example templates and understand how to launch a range of configurations, from simple servers, through full load-balanced applications.

Infrastructure

Prerequisites

Although this quest will teach you the fundamentals of Terraform, you will still need hands-on experience with GCP’s computing and networking services before getting started. It is recommended that the student have at least earned a Badge by completing the hands-on labs in the Cloud Architecture and/or the Networking in the Google Cloud Quests before beginning.

This lab shows you how to create a HTTPS load balancer to forward traffic to a custom URL map, which then sends traffic to the region closest to you with static assets being served from a Cloud Storage bucket.